Device for printing merchants&#39; advertising-cards on wrapping-paper.



No. 723,785. 'PATENTED MAR. 24, 1903.

.N. T. POOL.

DEVICE FOR PRINTING MERCHANTS-T ADVERTISING CARDS 0N WRAPPING PAPER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 21, 1902. NO MODEL.

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UNITED STATE ATENT ()FFICE.

NORMAN T. POOL, 0F TOPEKA, KANSAS.

DEVICE fOR PRINTING MERCHANTS:ADVERTISINGeCARDS ON WRAPPING-PAPER. t

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 723,785, dated. March 24, 1903 Application filed March 21, 1902. Serial No. 99,368. (No model.)

To (0Z6 whom it mayconaern:

Be it known that I, NORMAN T. PooL,a citizen of the United States, residing at Topeka, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Printing Merchants Advertising-Cards on Wrapping-Paper,of.which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for printing wrapping-paper from the rolls, in which shape it is usually furnished, or from sheets, as the case may be, thedevices as a whole beingsemi-automatic and operated by pulling the papers through therolls of the machine, or it may be operated by means of the handle of the printing and measuring roller thereof and made to print paper in sheets or paper bags.

The objects of my invention are, first, to produce a simple device for the printing of wrapping-paper and paper bags that shall be entirely practical to the average layman; second, to so arrange the device as a whole that or, to reverse the order, to use the measuring device for running through the printing-rolls single sheets of paper or paper bags. I attain these objects by the mechanism illusa trated in the accompanying drawings, in

Figure l is a broken plan view. Fig. 2 is an end view. Fig. 3 is asectionofthe'upper printing device, taken through the-line a Z) of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail of the retardingspring. Fig. 5 is a detail of the printingroller; and Fig. 6 is a detail of the cylindrical wedge, showing the longitudinal slot cut therein.

Similar letters refer to similarparts throughout the several views.

Letters A A refer to the wooden bases on which the metal standards B B standand to which they are attached by screws or other suitable means. Aindicates asemicircular cut in the said bases that enables the operator to more freely catch hold of the wrappingpaper F.

O is a wooden roller with metal gudgeons, that find position through the slots 0 to the bearings 0. Each endof this roller is slightly tapered, as shown at Z, Fig. 1, and upon this taper play the cylindrical wedges D, which are slotted throughout their length, that they may spring open; as may be demanded by their function and their position on the taper of the roller 0. The rollerCis passed through the opening in the roll' of paper, and the wedges D are forced up the taper Z, wedging the said paper tightly upon the said roller. The bosses E of the standards B B B B are slotted, as shown at C, (see Fig. 2,) that the roller 0, together with a roll of be readily placed in its bearings.

paper, may

The retarding-spring R isformed as shown in Fig. 4:. Its ends B R are preferably hexagonal in cross-section.

alike conformation of the frames B B, as

shown atR, enabling the operator to increase the pressure of the retarding-spring on the face of the roll of paper F by simply setting the said spring one face backward or forward, as may be desired. As will no doubt be. understood, the pressure of the retardingspringwill decrease in proportion to the diminishment of thesize of the roll of paper. This'is an important featurein myinvention in that the tension-on the roll of paper is kept practically uniform, preventing any slack from forming and tending to keep the paper as it comes from the roll in alinement.

Projecting out from the standards B B are the secondary standards B, that carry the printing devices of my invention.

All of the rollers herein described are preferably made of wood Withmetal gudgeons.

The main roller-G is formed with an annu- These ends pass into lar depression as toits length, as shown in detail in Fig. 5. In this depression is set the rubber-type card G, that gives its impress in anilin ink to the paper passing between the said type and the impression-roller L. The ink-rollers H and-I are primary and secondary, the roller H only coming. in contact with the face of the type, the secondary roller I being designed as a feed and ink-distributin' g roller. Both of these rollers are covered with felt and are such as are in common use for the distribution of anilin ink. The roller H is held against the face of the type by means of the weight of the protecting cover or guard N, the dogs 0 thereof resting on the gud'geons of the said roller, as shown in Fig. 2. The cover N is hinged to the binding-rod K, which is held in place by means of the nuts K.

The pressure of the roller H on the printingroller G can be increased or decreased by means of a weight laid upon or attached to the said cover at N. The impression-roller L is incased with rubber. its gudgeons, as well as the bearings for the gndgeons of the ink-roller H, are elongated, as shown in Fig. 2. The gudgeons of the impression-roller L are journaled in the lower ends of the right-angular springs, as shown at S, Fig. 2. These springs are pivoted to the secondary standards and are held in their adjusted positions by means of the studs S, formed integral with the main standards and with which the free ends of the said springs engage. In this connection there is a secondand the same is true when the said crank is used to force the paper from the roll.

In practical use the roller 0 is passed through the center opening in the roll of paper and the cylindrical wedges D are forced into their positions, firmly binding the said roll of paper to the said roller. The retarding-spring R is then sprung forward out of the way, and the roll of paper attached, as stated, to the roller 0 is placed via the slot (3 in the bearings 0, when the retardingspring R is allowed to come in contact with the face of the roll of paper. The end of the The bearings for said roll of paper is then passed downward between the impression roller L and the printing-roller G and under the roller M and through the tear-ofi straight edge P, when the machine is ready for use. It will be understood that ink has been applied to the rollers I H. When it is desired to print paper bags, the end of the roll of paper is withdrawn from between the impression-roller L and the printing-roller G and the paper bags then fed singly therebetween, which bags are printed by rotating the rollerG, as in the former operation.

Having thus described my invention, What Iclaimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In awrapping-paper'printing machine, the combination with the standards,of roller-supporting means secured thereto, outwardlyextending secondary standards formed integral with the first-named standards, a printing-roller journaled in the outer ends of said secondary standards, inking-rollers journaled in the said secondary standards above the said printing-roller, an impression roller, right-angular springs pivoted to the secondary standards and supporting the said impression-roller, and studs spaced apart and formed integral with the first-named standards, said springs having their free ends adapted to engage the said studs whereby the same are adjusted,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NORMAN T. root In presence of E. ROOF, W. MoOLINTooK. 

